Audio Column by Sukey Howard

<B>Sukey's favorite</B> <B>The Birth of Venus</B> by Sarah Dunant is the kind of wonderful historical novel that captivates from the get-go, taking you into another time and into another person's sensibility. Dunant gives us a woman's view of life in early 16th-century Florence, when the city's devotion to luxury and glorious art was being challenged and denounced by the...